Learning Quotes
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.Lord Chesterfield
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.Louisa May Alcott
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.Moshe Arens
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.Jiddu Krishnamurti
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.Jean de La Fontaine
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?Alan Perlis
Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.Samuel Butle
Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - - To see correctly - - And that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.Kimon Nicolaides
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.Christopher Morley
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.Danish Prove
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.Archibald Wavell
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.John Jay Chapman
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.Helen Kelle
There is no procedure for learning to write. What you must do, is learn to think.S. Leonard Rubenstein, Pennsylvania State University, Chairman of the English Department, classroom lecture 1980
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.Henry Ford
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D. N. A.Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter".
Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by learning we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.Martin Heidegge
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.Stephen Vizinczey
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.Albert Coombs Barnes
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.Roy Blount Jr.
No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.John Selden
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.Edward Young
Health is worth more than learning.Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.Lord Chesterfield
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.Lawrence Peter Berra
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.Sarah Ban Breathnach
You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.Clay P. Bedford
If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.Harold Abelson
The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.William James
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.Theodore Parke
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.James Waddell Alexander, II
